Mission Statement- W. D. & Mary Baker Smith Career Center offers a career and technical education that nurtures students with academic and vocational skills necessary for successful transition to post-secondary education and/or the workforce.

The Career Center serves as an extension of the five area high schools in Lafayette Parish. This innovative school offers students vocational enrichment that provides hands-on experience in two or three-hour blocks of instruction

The Center enables students to learn job entry skills before high school graduation, or to prepare for additional training at the postsecondary level.

Only one in five jobs available in America's workforce requires a higher education. The courses at the Career Center can prepare students to begin work as soon as they graduate.

COURSE OFFERINGS

Students may take classes in a variety of areas in one of the four career clusters: Arts and Humanities, Business, Engineering and Industrial Technology or Health and Human Services.